Today's Features

“It just doesn’t feel like December,” Karen Wray said as she was preparing her gallery for the annual Art For the Holidays show, which opens with a reception from 5-7 p.m. today.
Normally, Wray feels very in tune with the coming of winter; landscape painters are deeply sensitive to seasonal changes. Her focus and immersion in leaves turning, the blooming of springtime, the heat of summer and the crisp starkness of winter is evident in the artwork she creates and curates in her gallery. The new pieces leaning against the wall capture the magic of a Los Alamos Winter.

From the musical ballet, the “Nutcracker,” to the sounds of carolers singing holiday classics, Los Alamos will celebrate an “enchanted” holiday with a number of holiday-related events, starting with the three-day Winterfest weekend, Friday through Sunday.
The cast of the Dance Arts Los Alamos group will help kick off the holiday festivities with a presentation of Tchaikovsky’s holiday classic, the “Nutcracker,” at 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Dec. 3 and 4 at the Duane Smith Auditorium.
Saturday hosts a variety of activities. From 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Fuller Lodge will have an open house with various musical performances.

Next up in the Mesa Public Library’s Free Film Series is a story with fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love and miracles.
It’s not too scary, but there are some shrieking eels. An angry Spaniard repeatedly tells a man with a surplus finger to prepare to die. It’s almost a chant.
There’s an entire pit full of despair and a handful of quasi-sportsmanlike hand-to-hand combat.
There is a pack, or mischief, of really big rats to worry about, if they do actually exist, and an equally beastly Sicilian with a dizzying intellect.

The Major General Franklin E. Miles Chapter 229 of the Military Order of World Wars in Los Alamos announces New Mexico Secretary of Department of Veteran Services Col. Tim Hale USAF retired, will present the Pearl Harbor Recognition Day address at the Chapter’s Dec. 7 dinner meeting.
The meeting will be at the Best Western Hilltop House, Tyonuyi Room. The meeting will begin with a social period at 6 p.m., followed by a brief business meeting and dinner at 6:25 p.m.
Hale’s talk begins at about
7:15 p.m. The dinner entrée is roulette of beef, scallop potatoes, vegetables, salad and desert. Cost of the dinner is $27 per person.

Rio de Janeiro's floating Christmas tree was inaugurated on Saturday, with a concert and fireworks show that lit up the city's lagoon. At 280-feet tall, it holds the Guinness World Record for being the largest floating Christmas tree.